Also known as Roy (given name), Roy (first name)
Roy is both a given name and a family surname with varied origins.
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It sits within the topics Bengali Hindu surnames, English-language surnames and English masculine given names.
Its subject is documented across 8 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Roy (given name)
- native label
- Roy
- Soundex
- R000
- Cologne phonetics
- 7
- Caverphone
- R11111
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- France & England
- Origin
- Middle Ages
- Anglo-Norman England
- North America
- South Asia
- Scotland
- Given name
- Surname
- Fictional characters
- See also
- References
Roy is both a given name and a family surname with varied origins.
== France & England == thumb|upright=0.8|Coat of arms of Le Roy, Normandy. Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Roy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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